Career and Employment Services (CES) is here for you!

Career and Employment Services (CES) supports students as they align themselves with opportunities leading to creative, productive, and satisfying professional lives.

Get to know CES!

Puget Sound considers students to be on their career path from the day they arrive on campus. We support their career development with a unique career engagement center that delivers timely, comprehensive, accessible resources for students wherever they are in their career development process.

A unique career engagement center:

Career support is simple, accessible, individualized. We help students perfect resumes, practice interviewing skills, and devise personalized strategies for career development or a job search. Our three-step career planning outline supports students at every stage in their career development, from assessing their interests and exploring options to deciding on a plan of action, whether that be for a summer internship or a full-time career position.

Typically, students begin college focused on part-time employment rather than career-related pursuits. CES bridges that gap in a single office, integrating all internship, job (part-time, full-time, on-campus, off-campus, summer, work-study), and career planning resources. Students benefit from this alignment of part-time and post-graduation job resources in a variety of ways:

Students gain early exposure to career resources. By the time students are considering career decisions, they've already engaged with the people and resources available to help them make a plan. They are more comfortable reaching out for assistance and taking advantage of career information and services.

This emphasis on the value of campus jobs and early work makes those experiences more meaningful and marketable for students, helping them prepare to position themselves as employees of choice after graduation.

Programming is targeted at helping students explore potential career paths, connect with employers and alumni, prepare for professional situations, and more. Distinctive resources, partnerships, and opportunities available to students through CES include:

Continuous outreach, ensuring that students have timely, easy access to events and resources uniquely tailored for them. We meet students where they are, whether online, in the diner, or across campus:

Puget Sound's long-standing tradition of alumni-student career mentoring:A robust network of alumni share information with students about career and education options beyond Puget Sound, and help connect students with opportunities.

Alumni are uniquely qualified to represent the potential of Puget Sound students to their employers. CES partners with alumni to connect students with job and internship opportunities.

CES actively engages alumni in career events and activities, providing students with exposure to career professionals from a variety of fields.

40% of Puget Sound students participate in at least one internship.Over 15,000 regional and national opportunities are listed annually in Puget Sound's internship database, InternshipLink. CES career advisors can help students identify and compete for opportunties, regardless of the student's interest.

With a deep commitment to service and sustainability and a penchant for starting their own businesses, Puget Sound graduates are poised to make a difference. Selected organizations recent grads have been offered employment: